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Comparing Two Password Strings

I have not done any programming in years adn someone asked me this today:
"I wanna compare two password strings.
I don't think I can use
IF (pass1 == pass2) equal to
because they are not numerical I certainly cant use
IF (pass1 <> pass2) not equal to
so how do I check that pass1 is the same as pass2."